Remove unneeded information from looping over files

datacarpentry · Nov 4, 2022 · b0ca28b · b0ca28b
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diff --git a/materials/for-loops-R.md b/materials/for-loops-R.md
@@ -197,12 +197,10 @@ list.files()
 ```
 
 * But we just want the data files so we'll add the optional `pattern` argument to only get the files that start with `"locations-"`
-* The `*` is a wild card, so this means "starts with locations- and includes anything afterwards"
 
 
 ```r
-data_files = list.files(pattern = "locations-*", 
-                        full.names = TRUE)
+data_files = list.files(pattern = "locations-")
 ```
 
 * Once we have this list we can loop over it count the number of observations in each file